Create Your Teacher's Web Page
March 9, 2010

Objective:
Become familiar with the workings of HTML. Understand what is involved in creating a web page.

Learning Outcomes:
As a result of the lecture, demonstration, and lab practice regarding web page creation, students should be able to:

• Know what HTML is and recognize it
• Know what a WYSIWYG editor is and how to use it
• Know what a 'tag' and what an 'attribute' is
• Be able to create a link, an 'mailto', and insert an image into a web page
• Understand what is involved in having a web page hosted
• Understand what is necessary to upload a web page

Coursework Procedure:
Using either Portable KompoZer or the standard version of KompoZer (or Dreamweaver if you have it available to you) to create a teacher's web page for yourself that contains the following components:

1. A formatted heading at the top of the page.
2. A picture of yourself.
3. A link to your UEN web page.
4. A short biography of yourself that is relevant to your teaching position.
5. A minimum of two graphics you found on the Internet or elsewhere that will accent your page and is appropriate for a subject you will be teaching (the picture or yourself doesn't count).
6. A contact link for parents to email you.

Keep in mind that an 'about you' web page is a professional document and should reflect your career position. Therefore, it is recommended that you consider your site a form of communication to parents and students. It should reflect the following:

• Your teaching philosophy.
• Your expectations of the student either in the form of a disclosure or including one.
• Contact information (follow your district's policy).
• Pertinent course information/syllabus if possible.
• A picture of yourself (teacher portrait the best choice).

Your web page should be created inside a folder. DO NOT create your web site and then move it inside a folder to submit. Additionally, you cannot submit a folder by email or to Blackboard so you must compress (ZIP if you are on a PC or create an archive if you are on an older Mac) that folder to submit your assignment. Nothing happens to the original folder when you do this, you just get a new file with the extention ".zip" that you can attach to an email or submit to Blackboard Vista. Usually that ZIP file will have the same name as the folder you created it from. [Note: On a Mac, the achive feature is built in. On a PC, if you don't have a ZIP program, you can use this one from portableapps.com]

Assignment Due:
You must complete your web page (.html) by March 30, 2010 12:00 PM and submit it in a ZIP file to Blackboard Vista or email the ZIP file to me. NOTE: You MUST have your web page (index.html) AND your images inside your folder before you create your assignment, then zip it.